Standard of water
Bathing beaches at Taylors Mistake, Scarborough, Sumner, New Brighton, North New Brighton, and Waimairi were all satisfactory from a bacteriological point of view, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr L. F. Jepson) advised the Christchurch Drainage Board on Tuesday evening. However, there was some justification for a suggestion made to the department that there should be notices in some other areas where swimming is popular advising that, as effluent from the sewage treatment works was discharged into the Estuary, people should not swim there or eat shell fish which grow there. Samples taken from off Ebb Tide Street, the Pleasant Point Domain, Humphreys Drive, and the Mount Pleasant Yacht Club had an average faecal coliform content far in excess of the standard for bathing waters defined in the Water and Soil Conservation Act.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 17
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